Grantee Spotlight: Montclair State University & Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum

The Incubation and Action Grant program at NJCH provides funding for public humanities projects through a competitive grant process. Montclair State University received an Incubation Grant to create written and oral Haitian Creole translations of 18th century French archival sources on political life, commerce, and the lives of people of color. The Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum received an Action Grant to recreate a smaller version of a World War II-era spotter tower and tell the story of the women, elderly, and children that volunteered as plane spotters.

____Humanities Connection is a monthly program that explores NJCH grantee projects and initiatives. Representatives from these nonprofit organizations discuss the impact of their public humanities programming in communities around the state. Sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and broadcast on WFDU (89.1 FM), Fairleigh Dickinson University’s public radio station, Humanities Connection, hosted by Bob Mann, airs the last Saturday of each month at 12:30 p.m.